Stan Klamer (1951) employs cartography in a free and associative manner to create maps of land, sea and sky in which geography merges with historical, religious and literary concepts. For Klamer, too, the Earth is a recurring motif. In horizontal bands he depicts cross-sections of mountains and hills that are mirrored downward, continuing as subterranean landscapes. Often, he overlays these horizontal strata with a circular form, combining a bird’s-eye perspective with a lateral view. Klamer has previously explored mirroring in drawings of ships and boats, their black silhouettes doubled downward into a blue sea animated by varied wave patterns. Parallely Stan Klamer presents several of his celestial maps in the exhibition Apocalypse, Fear and Hope at Museum Huis van het Boek, The Hague. More information: www.huisvanhetboek.nl
Kevin Simón Mancera (1982) previously exhibited at the gallery in the group exhibition MONSTER, where he portrayed hybrid beings—half human, half wolf—sharing traits of both. His work is distinguished by the remarkable precision with which he renders these figures in watercolour and ink. In a later series titled Forget Me Not, he meticulously depicted collections of extinct birds, reptiles and mammals—an encyclopaedia of lost species. In the current exhibition, he presents four new drawings in which animals are combined in unexpected pairings. An eagle and a rabbit, for example, are brought together without predator or prey dynamics; they exist side by side, without direct interaction.